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Dock Union Leader's Support of Potential Contract Underestimates the Impact of Technology and Highlights the Lack Of Unity With Unions Nationwide.

  From WSWS : On February 25, over 40,000 East and Gulf Coast dockworkers will vote on a proposed six-year labor contract worked out by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX). Almost a month after the last-minute announcement of the tentative agreement on January 8, the ILA released a 50-minute video, featuring pre-recorded statements by ILA President Harold J. Daggett and Vice President Dennis A. Daggett. While the video was ostensibly meant to play up the contract “highlights,” it shows in fact that the contract offer, which was reached to block a powerful strike, is a miserable sellout. Dockworkers must reject it by the widest possible margin, and organize themselves to prepare for action for a contract which actually meets their demands. The key issue which workers are prepared to strike over is the question of automation, which the port operators aim to use in order to cut thousands of jobs. They point to the far...

Fox News Commentators & Republicans Are Learning What "DEI" Really Mean As People They Know Get "DOGE'd"

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Flashback: Gracie's Corner Celebrating Black History

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Sammy Obeid Drops Jokes, Math and Political Takes

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Brian Berletic on The US, NATO and Ukraine.

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Sabby On Hakeem Jeffries

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Can The Trump Administration Handle BRICS?

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Steve Bannon Is Not A Fan of Elon Musk and Other Oligarchs.

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Super Bowl Halftime, Third Parties and California Politics: Butch Ware on Bad Faith

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The Extent Of The IDF's Plan To Make Gaza Unlivable.

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Why else would they target medical devices?